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> A printed photo in an album can easily last 20+ years without deterioration.

This first sentence is a big one. For a while now we have been making a yearly printed album of our favorite family photos. The first one was a gift for our parents but we liked it so much we continued the project.

When close friends and relatives visit, it is much more likely that we'll pull an album off the shelf and enjoy the memories together than we would digitally go through a year's worth of pictures.

It's a fun family project and you end up with a nice curated keepsake that will last a long time.

I also store a copy of each album sealed in a mylar bag which should keep them nicely for any curious decedents long from now.
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They sold multiple generations of these huge NUMA machines. First were the MIPS-based Origin 2000 and 3000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_2000 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_3000_and_Onyx_3000#... ) supporting up to 512 CPU's running Irix, then came the Itanium-based Altix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altix ) with up to 4096 cores running Linux, then finally the x86-64 based Altix UV supporting up to 2048 cores, also running Linux.
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I have inherited a piece of oak furniture and that was assembled at my grand-aunts flat in situ, with wood glue and moves as a single piece, doors, interior and all. It's about 2,50m wide and 2m high and feels like it weigh a ton. Takes three to four people to move. Every time I move, the folks come in, have a look at that beast and take a break. It's definitely more a piece for people that have settled in one place.
Yeah, I understood that. I was just saying that Ikea owns a lot of forests in Romania, too.
The Algebraist, while a great sci-fi novel, isn’t a Culture novel. I’d still highly recommend it though as it’s very enjoyable.
Looks very nice! I wonder why blue is "sleep" and orange is "wake up". That seems flipped from what it should be?
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Not in countries with functioning labor law.
Hmm, I don't actually know of a way to delete a specific file from all backups in restic/borg, and it wouldn't be very convenient to do that for every single file I delete just to free storage.

Instead, I just set the retention policy to a year. Since most of my backups are photos and archival stuff like that, I rarely delete those without confirmation, so it's not a problem.

For other things like documents, I have Nextcloud, which does keep the last N versions, so it guards against the scenario you describe, true.
> I guess the argument would go that we would be better off building small quantities of long-lasting re-usable furniture, rather than building and throwing away lots of new cheaper furniture

No way. Not as long as population growth is a thing. A lot of people shopping at IKEA are buying furniture for the first time. Imagine if we switched to all hardwood furniture. People would still need to buy as much furniture for the next 20-40 years or so at least, but now those furniture will have a huge environmental impact. Maybe you reduce the long-term impact, but probably not for 50 years at least.

Making things out of cheap and low-impact particle boards, cardboard cores, etc, is probably the most realistic way of reducing the environmental impact. It maximises the use of the wood, you can make it out of fast growing wood, and you minimise use of materials. If you reuse more of the wood fibers through recycling, it'd be even better.

I feel like this whole "we should use long-lasting re-usable furniture" thing is more about upper middle class people wanting to feel good about buying expensive furniture or spending the time to find and refurbish old furniture. There's nothing wrong with it, but it doesn't scale.
What low power server do you mean here? I use a similar setup, but I'm on Windows with a folder-to-folder sync tool to sync to an external HDD which is connected through USB.
I do have a 3rd HDD do make occasionally cold standalone backups.
Do you mean Vavatch, that was scheduled for destruction? That was Culture, but an Orbital.
I had this same thought, but I wonder if it really matters for this use-case. The rules are actually quite simple much of the time – they're spelling and stylistic corrections.

I suspect the biggest problem with using regexes is over-suggestion, trying to correct American English spellings in a quote for example, but I suspect this is a pretty good balance of features, usability, and correctness.

One issue that comes with more complex systems like you mention is that the bugs become more complex. I'd imagine it's fairly easy for a journalist using this tool to know why an incorrect suggestion has been made, and that makes it easy for them to disregard it. While the error rate may improve with more complex analysis, those errors that do still happen are likely to be less understandable.
I know I've been more snarky recently than I'd like have been.

Lockdown in various countries is definitely bringing out the worst in people, some of the time; I obviously include myself this in this.

Can't be easy moderating during a pandemic. Thanks for doing a good job.
I don't understand this, how did angry activists know that she was the one who phoned 911? Are identities of 911 callers part of some public records disclosure?
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Did you edit the Wikipedia page or challenge the interpretation in the talk page?
Do posts like this one count as "post what you're thinking" social media?
At first I thought this was a random student attempting something. Would have never guesses that this was actually from quanta.

Here is the discussion from /r/math: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/l4zhxh/the_map_of_mat...
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There was recently some post about a map of mathematics, and I remember seeing one for map of physics or map of computer science.

Is there such a thing for software?

How would it be structured?
Exactly this. It's better to think of said hardware as toys and not tools.
Why not just boot to Electron?
Oh but he's not doing it while wearing Che shirt and having the right identity, also his companies aren't cooperatives crippled by internal ideological fractures; therefore bad.
She posted about it herself.
Lithuania is about 16 million acres, so that would be about 0.4% which is a lot but doesn’t seem too far out of the ordinary.

There are 50,000 and 60,000 acre tracts owned by separate logging companies near me, and that’s a small part of one county in northern California.

Point being that 10,000 acres isn’t actually as much land as it sounds like, when it comes to forest land.
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Yes. Imagine if the telecoms could play ads before, after, and during your conversations on your phone(s)? Why do we accept it from big tech social media?
Part of the idea of patents is they are supposed to be able to teach someone else how to make the invention.

How can you teach someone else to do something if you don't know yourself? You can't.

Frank Whittle patented the jet engine years before he successfully built one. His patent couldn't teach anyone how to build a jet engine, because he didn't know himself.
It’s a big galaxy. The number of people into that sort of thing in the Culture is probably larger than the number of humans currently on Earth.
Trek has from the very beginning had significant elements of showing societies where tech totally messed up their societies or their worlds because things went wrong.

It just generally resolved the problems by the end of the episode instead of running longer arcs. That newer Trek has longer arcs has much more to do with the storytelling methods than with an overall unwillingness to show positive change.
Native Client (NaCl) comes to mind.
I think you missed a part in my comment:

> (or could have and lacks)

Absence of features can also be used for detection. Any differentiator.
We are dealing with 5+ papers that are fraudulent and another 5+ newer papers that are most likely fraudulent, too. That is, there have been 20, 25+ reviewers looking at those papers. Their job was to carefully read them and double check the numbers. All of them gave those papers a pass. I am at a loss here.

The authors' behaviour is outrageous, but this story is also about a broken reviewing process, partly due to wrong incentives.
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Agree. You could literally say anything in the cookie message, and people would just happily click and along with it. I've used to tapping yes and going next. Not exactly what they intended when they came up with this incredibly ill-conceived idea. Good intention, poor implementation, which is the state privacy and security regulation has been in for far too long.
Yes. One book (The Player of Games?) gave enough numbers for me to do the calculations, and it matched about 24h and 1g.
No surprise WebAssembly is disabled in Chrome on OpenBSD.
Why is "Point of Sale" a slur? ;-)
> Maybe Banks had enough imagination to think up the Culture, but not enough of an imagination to think up any interesting stories that would be internal to the Culture... I suppose Wodehousian or Jane Austen-style comedies of manners set on Shipboard probably weren't really his forte.

It's more than the Culture is a gimmick Banks use both as a light way to explore the limit of a somewhat ruleless utopia where mankind surrendered most of its power to an a benevolent deity and to write entertaining pieces of fiction.

He didn't use the setting and published as Iain Banks rather than Iain M. Banks when he wanted to write some other kind of story.
If mainstream platforms were federated, you could move to a third instance that would communicate both with the big instance and the banned instance. Hell, you could even host your own instance and still be able to talk to people on the big social network. That's the missing piece that would make those "you don't have to use that website" arguments valid since it would greatly lower the cost of moving away from one social media website to another.
Dutch. It's Swedish for common sense.
Also cost of human labour vs automation.

Manufacturing is done by machines but maintenance and repair are generally carried out by humans.

Agree that hostile design or just lack of attention are also huge issues.
Ok, then I have to revise my opinion of this. Live by the blue checkmark, die by the blue checkmark. Social media is a cancer.
Not to beat the snowflake millenial drum too hard, but my parents moved from the house they've owned since they were younger than me. They have furniture like bookcases, beds, couches, tables, much of which they offered to me. But I live in a 2 bedroom apartment that is less than 1/3 of the size of their house, so it just doesn't fit. As an example, their dining room table is wider than my living room! I can't take any of that furniture from our family home into my current home whether I want to or not, and even as a dual income household, with one working in tech, we can't afford to buy a house that would fit even half of their furniture.
I have had good experience moving ikea furniture, by disassembling and then re-assembling it.

Some of them, multiple times.
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A brilliant article, about an incredible guy.

It is terrifying to think what might happen next given Putin’s likely rage at Nalvany’s refusal to give in or give up.

Hopefully the knowledge that the world is watching, closer than ever, will have some impact...
The resale value of my Ikea stuff was quite high. This doesn’t support your argument, at least for my region and IKEA.
Back in the day Active State also had similar tooling support on their Tcl IDE.

https://www.activestate.com/products/tcl/
Interesting point. We could say then that it's a special case of the principle that illegal states should be unrepresentable. [0]

[0] https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types...
I won't reply to everything as we're getting into several conversation at the same time, beers on me if we ever meet in real life :D

I think we found the the source of divergence!

I don't think there should be any "rights", simply because having a right implies someone else will have to uphold it, which means it's unclear how much we're paying for it. Given a right is something that affects me, I want to be free to lose it, if I so desire.

The reason I don't like redistributive policies is because they non consensual.

I don't believe in free will (I don't think we are more than very clever machines), and maybe that's why I put a higher value on choice than on guaranteeing life.

At the same time, I think that voluntarily donations are more than enough to cover for those in needs.
There are so many people I talk to who are genuinely happy to pay taxes and there are many people who are not happy to pay taxes (in my case, mainly not to pay for an inefficient and warmongering model) who are happy to donate money in other causes.

So here I am, dreaming of a truly voluntarily society.
I have looked at that keyboard a lot and am really tempted to splurge, but ..
What is putting me of is the missing dedicated cursor keys at the bottom right. I use a layout on my current keyboard that has cursor keys on e,s,d,f with a modifier and use that a lot, but not exclusively..
I have the same issue with the ultimate hacking keyboard and others.

Has that bothered you at all, or did you find a layout that works for you and keeps the cursor keys?
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ADHD doesn't mean you can't ever focus. It means you have much less control over what you focus on. ADHD people can even have a tendency to hyperfocus on things that interest them or give them a constant dopamine drip. Hyperfocus can lead them to forget to eat or stay up very late without even noticing, simply because they're focused so hard on the thing they're preoccupied by.
Yikes, now you have me worried. I've recently set up btrfs on a Synology, mostly to get the advanced features like scrubbing and snapshots. But if it's too risky maybe I should've gone with ext4.
The name makes a bit of sense, in the sense that once it's signaled, it stays that way. So the signaled state is latched.

This contrasts to std::barrier which auto-resets once signaled[1].

As such I think it would be better if they had called it std::latched_barrier or similar.

[1]: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/thread/barrier
The problem I'm describing is formally known as "catastrophic forgetting".
Quoting from wikipedia:

Catastrophic interference, also known as catastrophic forgetting, is the
tendency of an artificial neural network to completely and abruptly forget
previously learned information upon learning new information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_interference

Of course neural nets can update their weights as they are trained, but the
problem is that weight updates are destructive: the new weights replace the old
weights and the old state of the network cannot be recalled.

Transfer learning, online learning and (deep) reinforcement learning are as
susceptible to this problem as any neural network techniques.

This is a widely recognised limitation of neural network systems, old and new,
and overcomging it is an active area of research. Many approaches have been
proposed over the years but it remains an open problem.
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Try Excession. I agree "Consider Phlebas" may not be the best one to start with if you're not familiar with The Culture already, and even then it may be a bit hard to get through.
Thank your for explaining it so clearly.
Is it “cheaper” environmentally?
Galant is not "engineered" per se. It's so dense that you can drive screws to anywhere on it. It behaves like drywall.

> And if water gets in and doesn't get removed immediately you're in for a world of excitement.

On higher end IKEA furniture there's no hex structure inside. It's filled. Solid. There's no inside.

My kitchen is 8 years old and it has a solid wood counter. I re-oil it occasionally but, there's no degradation whatsoever. It's guaranteed for 25 years so, it's not something flimsy. Again panels and cabinets are not hollow. There's no inside of these cabinets.
Also see Daniel Reiter Horn's DivANS built at Dropbox: https://dropbox.tech/infrastructure/building-better-compress...
There's a huge, huge chasm between allowing for sandboxing of applications and actually getting applications sandboxed. Flatpak can make use of that to isolate applications from the system but many (and I'm using that to account for recent changes -- last time I looked into it, it was most) applications on Flathub are packaged with full access to $HOME and/or the root filesystem.

It's not just a matter of technical difficulty, but also a problem of getting users on board: lots of them look at Flathub and -- quite understandably -- wonder why you'd want to jump through fifty sandboxing hoops to sandbox applications like Gimp and VLC, whose developers they trust and for which they get sandboxed packages out of their distributions' repos. The obvious retort that this isn't aimed at applications like Gimp and VLC feels a bit unsubstantiated because... what applications is it actually aimed at, then? Closed-source, potentially malicious applications like... what, if Linux had a lot of those, "the year of Linux on the desktop" wouldn't be a joke. And why not just run those in a virtual machine, which is likely to be a lot harder to escape from and also means you get to keep a "normal" *nix system as a host.

It's hard to get people on-board with sandboxing when most of them shrug and say they don't need it, and when -- if you squint a little -- it kindda turns out they're not entirely wrong, either.
A vertical mouse, combined with a wrist and elbow brace helped me immensely, where a trackpad or thumb-ball made my RSI much worse. Even just a cheap one is an improvement, but the more vertical the tilt, the better. The one I use now is the one that's rebranded by half a dozen suppliers on Amazon.

The thing that's hard to remember with a vertical mouse (and mice in general) is that you're supposed to move your arm, not your wrist. Getting used to that was more of an issue than the orientation of the mouse.
I assume the plugin is just running Tcl/Tk inside a browser window.

I wonder how hard it would be to recreate the same idea using Emscripten drawing to a HTML canvas?

People have gotten Tcl to work on Emscripten [0]. I think the big problem is the Tk part. Tk has X11, Win32 and macOS backends, but emscripten supports SDL, for which there is no Tk backend.

[0] https://github.com/aidanhs/emtcl
Adafruit’s goal is the success of Adafruit. They built an increasingly closed ecosystem on the shoulders of a constellation of open source projects. Success is no sin, but I’m tired of their branded bloatware being touted as groundbreaking. Their development choices are commercially expedient and designed to capture market share instead of contributing to the greater success of the open source maker movement that enables their existence.
Yes, we'll definitely be looking at having a source-amplitude in the future, the issue is already here:

https://github.com/airbytehq/airbyte/issues/1457
> I think once you've seen a few papers in high-tier journals that turn out to be bullshit once you start to dig a bit deeper, there is not other choice than to adopt this harsh stance on random scientific papers. Especially if you want to do work with that expands on findings on other papers that roughly look good "trust but verify" seems to be the way to go.

Yeah, but I meant that in general case, you no longer "trust but verify", but "assume bullshit and hope there's a nugget of truth in the paper".

This has interesting implications for consuming science for non-academic use, too. I've been accused of being "anti-science" when I said this before, but I no longer trust arguments backed by citations around soft-ish fields like social sciences, dietetics or medicine. Even if the person posting a claim does good work of selecting citations (so they're not all saying something tangentially related, or much more specific, or "in mice!"), if the claim is counterintuitive and papers seem complex enough, I mentally code this as very weak evidence - i.e. most likely bullshit, but there were some papers claiming it, so if that comes up again, many times in different contexts, I may be willing to entertain the claim being true.

And stories like this make me extend this principle to biology and chemistry in general as well. I've burned myself enough times, getting excited about some result, only to later learn it was bunk.

The same pattern of course repeats outside academia, but more overtly - you can hardly trust any commercial communication either. At this point, I'm wondering how are we even managing to keep a society running? It's very hard work to make progress and contribute, if you have to assume everyone is either bullshitting, or repeating bullshit they've heard elsewhere.
It's getting worse and worse, too. Ten years ago there was an enormous variety of PC cases with almost every imaginable design philosophy. These days it's basically either a black plastic box or a clear glass box. Mini-fridge or aquarium, that's it.
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I think you missed the word "if" there. The commenter above did not suggest it would, but posited that if they could do so without affecting their own wealth, they believe Musk and Bezos quite probably would.

It's a hypothetical suggesting something about Musk and Bezos personalities and/or intent, not about their actual ability to make things better.
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The situation has escalated because normal, rational, calm politics has completely failed to deliver.

Police shoot someone dead. There should, at the very least, be a reliable public inquiry into each one of these incidents. We could treat it as an air accident or a murder inquiry, either would work; but instead, there is nothing. Over the years, the anger about being exposed to the risk of being shot dead without consequences boils over, and suddenly there is fighting in the streets and on Twitter. The way to "reverse the trend" is for justice to be seen to be done within the system, so people don't go outside the system. After all, there's no way to end calls for people to be fired without infringing free speech.

Is calling the police on somebody making a death threat? That's how SWATting came to be a problem, after all.
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I think there is a cost disease in software where baseline requirements only increase depending on the maturity of a company. Accessibility, localization, scalability, permissioning, observability and alerting, reliable deploy and testing pipeline... all these things are table stakes for a new project at the company I work at, represent A LOT of complexity, yet an application delivered without them might have a nearly identical user experience...

That’s not even to mention the added burdens on the planning side of things, e.g. getting infosec and legal and compliance to sign off before breaking ground, gathering requirements from 10 different teams across the world, appeasing more stakeholders, etc.

The difference just in table stakes between a young startup and a mature company can easily account for an order of magnitude difference in effort required to deliver a feature, and it shouldn’t be surprising.

Edit: and this is why I weep when I see mature companies under-investing in developer tooling.
It does smell like a PR attempt. But if a PR attempt is what it takes do something better than what came before I don't mind.
The store makes sure that the app is secure (via sandboxing), but you need to make sure that it is actually the app you want (quality)